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Some community banks have entered into the booming energy market without taking the necessary precautions, making them vulnerable to a downturn in oil prices.

Volcker Lashes Out; Erbey to Be Forced Out as Ocwen Chair

The Sony Pictures web attack may have led you to question whether your own business was secure and if the information your clients provide via different payment methods can be breached, causing mistrust between business owner and vendor.

A recap of the informed opinions (and the discussions they generated) on BankThink this week.

In 2014, "Enough is enough" was NAFCU's rallying cry for the overwhelming regulatory burden on credit unions. NAFCU steadfastly advanced that message from Capitol Hill to the White House and beyond, yielding victories in many areas.

In this, our annual "Year In Review" edition of Credit Union Journal, it's a time of reflection and retrospection, and so I harken back to opening my very first savings account.

No amount of diligence on the part of financial institutions will help prevent future data breaches until retailers are subject to the same national data security standards that apply to banks and credit unions

Smoking-Gun Memo Leads to Big Fines; Mobile Banking Study

It’s clear that merchant acquirers and processors need to find a way to provide a fast, scalable and merchant-friendly certification path to EMV.

The repeal of the swaps push-out provision will reduce banks' operational costs, but it makes little difference in terms of increasing the size of the government safety net. The reason: with or without the rule, the government protects the swaps contracts of the largest institutions.